Best Practices

First-Year Seminar Objectives

Sample Text to Outline First-Year Seminar Program Objectives

Speaking of Teaching: Stanford University's Newsletter on Teaching

Here is a link to a faculty newsletter that I particularly enjoy: http://ctl.stanford.edu/Newsletter/

Responding to Student Papers Efficiently and Effectively

The following link will bring you to an article developed by Writing Services at the University of Toronto. The purpose of this article is to give instructors some ideas on developing and then marking written assignments.

Evaluating Student Writing

Peer Feedback on Written Work

This article was written by Library Services at the University of Calgary. See more of the U of Calgary article by downloading the attachment, improving-writing-through-peer-review.pdf

What is Peer Review?

Active Learning: Activities for Lectures and Seminars

 

Active Learning Strategies that Can Be Incorporated into Lectures

Ideas from: LEARNING BY DOING

Collaborative Group Work Projects

Group Projects: Benefits and Potential Concerns

Abstract for Flinders University Article on Group Work:

Learning Support Services- Study Skills Info Sessions.

Instructors are encouraged to incorporate a certain percentage of their course grade based on students' participation in a certain number of study skills info-sessions.

Great Video on Teaching

This link takes you to an excellent video about working with Deep and Surface Learners. It's about 20 minutes long.

Resources for ArtsOne and FYS Instructors